Saturday, February 5, 2011

Connecticut National Guard Detachment 2, Company I, 185th Aviation Regiment of Groton has mobilized and will deploy to the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, to support the Multinational Force and Observers.

The unit left Connecticut Jan. 15 for Fort Benning, Ga., for further training and validation. The unit operates C-23C Sherpa aircraft and has deployed three times in the last seven years in support of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The unit will provide an on-demand aviation asset to the Multinational Force and Observers commander to support its mission of supervising the security provisions of the Egypt/ Israel Peace Treaty.

The Pentagon is moving U.S. warships and other military assets to make sure it is prepared in case evacuation of U.S. citizens from Egypt becomes necessary, officials said Friday.

The Kearsarge, an amphibious assault ship carrying 700 to 800 troops from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, and the Ponce have arrived in the Red Sea, putting them off Egypt’s shores in case the situation worsens.

Pentagon officials emphasized that military intervention in Egypt was not being contemplated and that the warships were being moved only for contingency purposes in case evacuations became necessary.

In addition to the Marines, the Kearsarge normally carries around four dozen helicopters and harrier jets that would permit evacuations and other humanitarian operations, the officials said. More than 1,000 Marines from the Kearsarge were sent to Afghanistan last month on a temporary deployment, leaving roughly one-third still aboard, officials said.

In carrying out her mission, Kearsarge not only transports and lands ashore troops, but also tanks, trucks, artillery, and the complete logistic support needed to supply an assault.

The assault support system aboard ship coordinates horizontal and vertical movement of troops, cargo and vehicles. Monorail trains, moving at speeds up to 600 ft/min (3 m/s), transport cargo and supplies from storage and staging areas throughout the ship to a 13,600 square feet (1,260 m2) well deck which opens to the sea through huge gates in the ship's stern. There, the cargo, troops and vehicles are loaded aboard landing craft for transit to the beach. The air cushion landing craft can "fly" out of the dry well deck, or the well deck can be flooded so conventional landing craft can float out on their way to the beach.

Simultaneously, helicopters are brought from the hangar deck to the flight deck by two deck-edge elevators and loaded with supplies from three massive cargo elevators.

However, the Kearsarge has also been used in missions to evacuate people stranded in war zones.Wikipedia describes this unique dual capability:

Kearsarge is fully capable of amphibious assault, advance force and special purpose operations, as well as non-combatant evacuation and other humanitarian missions. Since her commissioning, she has performed these missions the world over, including evacuating non-combatants from Freetown, Sierra Leone, on 31 May 1997 and rescuing Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady from Serb-controlled territory in Bosnia on 8 June 1995. Additionally, Kearsarge is fully equipped with state of the art command and control (C&C) systems for flagship command duty, and her medical facilities are second in capability only to the Navy's hospital ships, USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) and Mercy (T-AH-19). These facilities allowed Kearsarge to serve a dual role during the 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as a platform for bombing missions against Serb forces in Operation Allied Force, and as a treatment facility for Albanian refugees in Operation Shining Hope.

The Los Angeles Times continues:

In addition, the aircraft carrier Enterprise is in the eastern Mediterranean. The Pentagon originally announced that the carrier was heading through the Suez Canal for the Arabian Gulf, but the crisis in Egypt appears to have prompted a decision to keep it in the Mediterranean at least temporarily.

Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea (as well as the Red Sea):

The Enterprise is the longest naval vessel in the world, and is powered by eight nuclear reactors. The Enterprise does not appear to have any dual role for evacuations, but is simply an offensive aircraft carrier.

Therefore, I see no clear indication that the U.S. government has affirmatively decided to directly involve our military in Egypt. However, it is obvious that the government is at least planning for the possibility.

A "very senior" member of the US Marine corps is telling people "multiple platoons" are deploying to Egypt, a source tells us.

There is a system within the US Marines that alerts the immediate families of high-ranking marines when their marine will soon be deployed to an emergency situation where they will not be able to talk to their spouses or families.

That alert just went out, says our source.

This senior Marine told our source that the Pentagon will deploy "multiple platoons" to Egypt over the next few days and that the official reason will be ‘to assist in the evacuation of US citizens."

Our source was told that "the chances they were going over there went from 70% yesterday to 100% today."

The Enterprise has helicopters and lots of room for passengers. Remember the 1975 Saigon evacuation? That helicopter pushed off the side of the ship to make room for refugees? That was the USS Midway, an aircraft carrier.

I am so reassured by the government (secrecy and lies) that we are on a humanitarian and possible rescue mission in the Middle East otherwise there is a possibility of a whole lot of innocent people that are going to be killed. Curiously, the US Embassy in Egypt has gone unscathed.

The fact is we have a secret shadow government that has puppet regimes, secret military pacts and trade agreements with other countries that the American people know nothing about (and people think we still live in a Democracy).

The United States military is the “big guns” for Big Oil/ World Banksters and WE are in the Middle East to do Big Oil’s dirty work for them as usual, for get about spreading Freedom, Liberty and Democracy, our government no longer even alludes to that. Ha. Ha.

The most recent example of secret trade agreements is World Banksters entering the Chinese Communist financial market with the booty that was stolen from us. Remember Chairman Hu, during his recent visit, when he humiliated Obama and the US by presenting a Chinese Revolution tune that depicted that the Chinese will destroy the US (Chinese humor, how they must despise banksters). Well, shortly after that visit, Communist China opened up to the criminal banksters and their “sophisticated financial instruments” in exchange for letting the Communist bankers directly into the US economy (who knows what else the bankster criminals sold out or agreed to).This secret agreement, probably brought about by the Banksters, US Chamber of Commerce, Council on Foreign Relations, Obama and the CIA, has been kept from the American people. Our Free Press that was once the guard for our Democracy and Freedom is dead so the truth is only found on the internet.

It is amazing that your blog is the only place I have read this. Again, thank you for aggregating so much interesting and helpful information in one place! Regarding the military alert, once again our government is prepared to spill American blood and the blood of innocent people in other countries to protect natural resources that aren't ours but which we feel entitled to. How disgusting...

i dont really know what to say or doi am really happy that mubarak is finally gonebut at the same time um really afraid of the US Movement toward us at the moment i really dont know what is going to happen i really its nothing to do with Our Country nor our arab world thank you for posting this.

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